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JoMiran , to News in Joe Rogan and Bret Weinstein Promote AIDS Denialism to an Audience of Millions
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I'm fifty. Joe Rogan is fifty six. Even though I was young in the eighties, by 1992 I had already lost six people I knew to AIDS. Joe, being six years older than I, would have witnessed peak AIDS apocalypse as an older teen. He was even from New Jersey, not some suburb in the midwest. He would have seen some shit. All he has to do is remember, but he chooses willful ignorance.

Ensign_Crab ,

We all just lived through covid. It's not that hard to imagine someone denying the existence of a global plague that effects people they know.

FlyingSquid , to News in Joe Rogan and Bret Weinstein Promote AIDS Denialism to an Audience of Millions
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Rogan is such a shit. I can't wait for his endorsement of Trump. You know that asshole's endorsement is coming. And he'll do it while talking about how old Biden is and ignoring the fact that Trump is only four years younger. Because he's a fucking idiot.

Skullgrid ,
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he was around during trump, he endorses the same things as trump, the same candidates as trump, with a few exceptions in both, and says "nah bro, I'm just thinking for myself and outside the mainstream"

jo3jo3 ,

He is Bernie Sanders guy, there's no Trump endorsement coming. If anyone, it would be Kennedy he would endorse I think, but I don't remember him ever endorsing anyone at all. Not sure why you're so pissed at the guy when you kinda seem to have no idea the type of candidates the guy is into. Ya he has some fucking way out there views and ideas for a guy with such a huge platform, but if you're paying attention at all he is way more on the Sanders end of the scale. He brings people like Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard, and Kennedy on. And I'm pretty certain he's said he'd never host Biden or Trump on the show, I think he like a lot of us, fuck both these two guys, give us someone worth voting for...

FlyingSquid ,
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He is Bernie Sanders guy, there’s no Trump endorsement coming.

Oh is he now?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/country-thriving-joe-rogan-says-162219415.html

cbarrick ,

I fully expect Rogan to endorse RFK Jr.

ClopClopMcFuckwad , to USA in Protest Convoy Headed to Southern Border Is Calling Itself an ‘Army of God’
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I'm totally an expert on Christianity and can confirm that God and Jesus both endorse AR15 wielding protest convoys, if it's one thing that God loves is armed conflict against poors and minorities.

ssorbom , to BecomeMe in The Antisocial Network: How the 90s Internet Died Like Diaryland

I mean, there's a big difference between not being popular and being dead. Nothing really happened to it, it just didn't grow at the rate that Facebook did.

jpreston2005 , to cats in Scientists Have Studied the Mysterious Behavior of Cats Sitting on Squares

Out of 500 cats and owners, only 30 completed the entire trial, shrinking the sample size considerably. Within that sample size, the cats showed clear preference for the box-like illusions over the controls. Still, to further cat cognition research, the paper recommends future studies only require owners to perform the experiment for one day (rather than six) to increase likelihood of completion.

Wow that's some next-level laziness exhibited by cat owners during the pandemic... You'd think being stuck inside would increase likelihood of completing the 6-day citizen science course.

MonkderDritte , to cats in Scientists Have Studied the Mysterious Behavior of Cats Sitting on Squares

TIL cats don't like boxes because box but because square.

Buddahriffic , to cats in Scientists Have Studied the Mysterious Behavior of Cats Sitting on Squares

I'd think most animals would have developed the ability to see that illusion because it's not based on seeing squares but on identifying something that is partially occluded, or at least identifying that it is all part of the same thing. If some grass or branches between you and another animal means you can't see that there's an animal behind it, you're going to be at a severe disadvantage whether you're trying to eat that animal or it's trying to eat you. I'd guess that capability evolved before mammals.

SouthEndSunset , to cats in Scientists Have Studied the Mysterious Behavior of Cats Sitting on Squares

Dunno about squares but one of ours loves to sit on packs of tins of cat food.

lost_faith ,

Old roommates cat would sit on paper money on the floor. She would walk in the room, or be lying quietly, someone drops a bill on the floor and she would get up and walk over then sit on it. Every time, without fail

Crackhappy , to cats in Scientists Have Studied the Mysterious Behavior of Cats Sitting on Squares
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Huh. I went and actually read the study, and the actual sample size is very small. 9 cats.

TheFriar ,

Yeah, the article mentioned they had a sample size of 500 but not everyone that volunteered completed the experiment, as it was during Covid so they had to send the materials out and rely on “citizen scientists.” A pretty precarious way of conducting a scientific study.

setsneedtofeed ,
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That does explain all those rockets exploding on the launch pads.

teamevil , to cats in Scientists Have Studied the Mysterious Behavior of Cats Sitting on Squares

They don't know how "big wild" cats would do‽ Google *tiger in a box" boom done. A cat is a cat is a cat

workerONE , (edited ) to cats in Scientists Have Studied the Mysterious Behavior of Cats Sitting on Squares

I've head it with circles.
Edit: heard LoL

Crackhappy ,
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I cannot parse what you're trying to say. Perhaps I'm dense.

sukhmel ,

It's another trend from some years ago, owners recorded videos of making a circle shape on the floor for their cats to come and sit inside

Crackhappy ,
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Oh... heard of it with circles. Yeah, I'm just dense. Didn't pick up on that.

Hadriscus ,

I thought they had it with circles. As in, enough circles, circles out ! circles not welcome

tsonfeir , to cats in Scientists Have Studied the Mysterious Behavior of Cats Sitting on Squares
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Out of 500 cats and owners, only 30 completed the entire trial

Maybe they just fell to sleep in the square.

WeaselOne ,

Lazy owners.

tsonfeir ,
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Maybe their cat sat on their lap and now they can’t move! We should check on them.

jordanlund , to cats in Scientists Have Studied the Mysterious Behavior of Cats Sitting on Squares
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Meanwhile... in my feed, this is 3 posts above this one:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/909eeca5-dd28-44c0-bd54-37f62ae6bd76.jpeg

ThunderclapSasquatch ,

A square, made of squares with his chin on a different square, magnificent

ignirtoq , to cats in Scientists Have Studied the Mysterious Behavior of Cats Sitting on Squares

Smith said that she’s also curious how this research would translate to non-domesticated cats like big, wild cats.

I'd love to see this experiment performed with big cats at zoos. I think zoo-goers might get a kick out of it, too.

Deceptichum , to cats in Scientists Have Studied the Mysterious Behavior of Cats Sitting on Squares
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If I fits I sits: A citizen science investigation into illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats

I love whoever named this study.

FuglyDuck ,
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who says scientists don't have fun?

Deceptichum ,
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Scientisnts.

FuglyDuck ,
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grumpy, cranky, crotchety scientists; maybe.

HootinNHollerin , (edited )
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA ,
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All those scientists voting to rename Uranus.

How do you think we fund those missions? Without jokes?

anindefinitearticle ,

You got a source on scientists voting for a rename?

nxdefiant ,

I don't know what they call themselves, but the opposition is anal retentive.

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